No Grammar-Bitch

I decided to include a short bit about the funding controversy in the newsletter. I thought maybe I could pull something from the website, so I went to the page dedicated to the controversy, and I read it. It was horrible. Sure, there were subject-verb disagreements, but I'm no grammar-bitch. This was a tone catastrophe. I don't think it could have been much worse, really. Even if it started raining, it wouldn't have mattered because it was already at rock-bottom. I read it and I felt angry towards the Ann Arbor Film Festival, which indicated to me that something was very wrong. I knew all about the issue, and was one-hundred percent supportive of the festival. However, the tone of the write-up was so hostile that it left me with the opposite response as was its intention. Oh my god, I thought. I am going to have to save this.

My first move was to print out the page and mark all of the problems. There were quite a few, but once I had them identified, I could go through them one by one. I think I kept the meat of the article intact, but just made some different word choices and deleted the sarcasm. Prior to this endeavor, I felt as though I could not take initiative, like the other interns, and that was why I was left task-less and unimportant at the January meeting. Now I felt a little better, and my revisions went up right away.